Posted on 07/03/2021 12:23:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
So this weekend, the 70's station on Sirius is playing the Top 70 summer songs from each year of the 1970s (which is ten, in case you are counting).
They are digging up some real gems.
They are on 1970 right now and one of the songs was Westbound #9 by a band called The Flaming Ember.
Now I remember that song very well from that year. I was just 7 years old and not even interested in girls yet. My main thing was reading the Happy Hollisters book series by Jerry West that I got from the library as well as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. Yes, even Nancy Drew. I pretty much read whatever I could get my hands on in those days and my sister (who looked a bit like Laurie from the Partridge Family) was into Nancy Drew and then so was I.
Anyway, this song was on the AM Top 40 Station WRKO (Boston) quite a bit in the summer of 1970 and I always thought they were a black soul band like Chairmen of the Board or The Delfonics.
But no they were not. They ended up being just an average white band, which was quite a surprise to me when I finally saw them out on the YouTube a few years back.
They also had a big hit with "Mind, Body And Soul" during that era but this "Westbound #9" is my favorite from them because it reminds me of a summer in which I read Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Happy Hollisters as an 8-year-old kid.
They also had the ice cream truck coming around the neighborhood that summer and I would often get the ice cream sandwich for about a dime or maybe even a nickel.
I always thought “Mind, Body And Soul” and “Westbound #9” were good tunes that would have been great and bigger hits if they had been recorded by a popular R&B group of the type you mentioned.
Bump for later
LOL, everybody looked like that back then.
Still have my original 45rpm of “Mind, Body And Soul”. Still regularly listen to the song... on my iPhone. Great song.
One of my favorite early 70s tune. Great to dance to. Music Mike’s Flashback Favorites on Youtube is a particularly clean reproduction. I’m Not My Brother’s Keeper is another good cut from the group.
I’ve seen that video. How ‘bout them highwater britches?
The Four Tops would have been good.
Ah, the 70s. Personally, I loved the medallion.
Blue-eyed soul, the music was called.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk6D7DzeMw
The Flaming Ember - I’m Not My Brothers Keeper
I agree.
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